BROWSE COLLECTIONS of artworks from various projects over many years. Charles is a productive artist and always has one of more projects on the go. Each gallery represents one of these.
Many of these work are available, while others have been sold, bartered or given away over the years. Please ask if anything catches your eye.
Art Project Galleries
Sharpie and Silhouette Sketches, lockdown 2021
These drawing form an ongoing series of explorations about the relationship between cutting and drawing. The drawings are all made with a set of coloured Sharpies. Strictly speaking, the relationship is between cutting, drawing and digital art, since the drawings and cuttings are combined in Photoshop
Reading Station no 2
Entrance to Reading Station with commuter figures
Reading Station no 1
A hot summer lockdown day outside Reading Station
Fish & Chips
The silhouettes were first rapidly sketched in pencil as people walked by and then afterwards cut out.
Although I work fast with scissors I've always found cutting an image of a moving target really hard
The Bite
One sunny afternoon I sat near my local shipping centre with a box of Sharpies, a pencil and some scissors.I drew the shops and cut the people
Domino's
I enjoy the colours and simple mark-making abilities of the Sharpie pens
Lloyds Pharmacy
Translating the shop front signage into Sharpie language appeals to my sense of letting and design. I plan to make more of these as the summer warms up and people start to come out
Zooming In
An exploration of practicing in the "Zoom space" for a Shintaido newsletter. I used a combination of Sharpie and silhouette to create these